Videos
Up one levelGypsy Moth-A Balanced Perspective
This video provides the viewer with a 20 minute explanation of the Gypsy Moth and its effects on individual trees and forests. Gypsy Moth management is also discussed.
Open Face Felling Techniques for the Professional Cutter
This is a short video produced by Stihl on how to properly and safely make an open face cut using a chainsaw.
Peterson Pacific Corporation Demonstration
This a short promotional video produced by Peterson Pacific Corp. on their line of delimbers and debarkers.
Plant Health Care
This is a short video produced by the International Society of Arboriculture. The video defines the concept of Plant Health Care (focusing on the environmental and soil factors that lead to health and vigor in a particular plant) and shows how arborists are trained to promote healthy plants.
Plant Health Care - Arborist
This short video produced by the International Society of Arboriculture looks at the arborist's point of view with regards to Integrated Pest Management and other concepts that have been essential to Plant Health Care and their profession.
Plantacion de Arboles en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
This is a Spanish speaking video produced by the USFS and Southern Regional Extension Forestry on tree planting in the Southern United States.
George Kessler: Understanding Forestry Terms and Concepts
Master Tree Farmer 2004- Session 1: Terms, Concepts, and Planning (Part 1)
Rick A. Hamilton: Forest*A*Syst- A Forest Landowner's Self-Assessment Guide
Master Tree Farmer 2004- Session 1: Terms, Concepts, and Planning (Part 2)
Jeffrey W. Stringer: Producing High Value Hardwood Trees
Master Tree Farmer 2004- Session 4: Hardwood Management (Part 2)
Mike Wetzel: Multiple Use Timber Management
Master Tree Farmer 2004- Session 6: Management Opportunities (Part 3)
Tom Hammett: Non-Timber Forest Products and Forest-based Enterprises
Master Tree Farmer 2004- Session 6: Management Opportunities (Part 4)
Urban Forestry and Arboriculture Workshop
This is an urban forestry and arboriculture workshop given by Dr. Kim Coder in Albany, GA on growing trees in urban environments, urban soils, pruning, pathology, and entomology.
VALMET Loggin America's Cut-to-Length System-546 Harvester and Forwarder
This is a short VALMET produced video advertising their cut-to-length 546 Harvester/Forwarder system.
When Nature Is at Your Doorstep
This is a short video produced by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the University of Florida about living at and management of forests in the wildland-urban interface.
Heritage of Trees
This is an hour long talk given by Dr. Kim Coder of the University of Georgia on the heritage of yard, urban, and community trees.
Oregon's Generous Forests: Managing for Clean Water
This is a 15 minute video about managing Oregon's various forest types for clean water.
On Target, Off Road-Safe Riding Tips for ATV Riders
Off road ATV riding is becoming more and more popular on forestland. This is a 20 minute ATV safety video.
Recycling Christmas Trees
This is a short video about how to initiate a Christmas tree recycling program in your area, town, or city.
The Global Food Web Project
This is a 20 minute video exploring the public policy education project for youth, the Global Food Web Project. The interconnectedness of the environment and global food supply are explained.
Endangered Species and Pesticides - Balancing Protection and Production
This is a short educational video produced by Oregon State University on understanding pesticide limitations with respect to endangered species and the Endangered Species Act.
Exporting Wood Products to Mexico - A Program for Success
This is an hour long video produced by the Texas Agricultural Extension Service on exporting wood products internationally to Mexico. Understanding international market risk is explored in this film in depth.
Managing Forest Ecosystems - Assessing New Opportunities
This is an hour and 45 minute video teleconference produced by Oklahoma State University. Hosted by Steve Anderson, Extension Forester, this teleconference explores the meaning of ecosystem management and what it means to the private forest landowner.
Managing Moisture - Module 1 - Billion Dollar Theft
This is a 20 minute introduction to managing the moisture that causes structural decay in houses and other built structures.
Managing Moisture - Module 2 - There's No Future in a Wet Foundation
This is the second video in the series "Managing Moisture". It takes a 15 minute look at diverting water away from the house and its foundation.
Managing Moisture - Module 4 - The BMW Complex - Bugs, Moisture, & Wood
This is the 4th video in the "Managing Moisture" series. It looks at the complex and costly relationship between wood, moisture, and bugs, primarily sub terrain termites and carpenter ants. The 20 minute video looks at various ways a homeowner can mitigate damage associated with moisture, insects, and wood.
Wildfire - Georgia's Historic Inferno
When a downed power line ignited the drought-parched forest floor on April 16, 2007, it set off a chain of staggering events. The raging Georgia Wildfires of 2007 soon became the largest and most devastating in state history.
Protect Home from Wildfire
This is short 30 second clip providing several tips on how to protect your home from wildfire. It is a message created by the Mississippi State Extension Service.
William Reynolds III: Estate Planning
Master Tree Farmer- Session 2: Forestry as an Investment (Part 3)
Quail at the Edge - When Can We Bring Them Back?
This is a short 25 minute video on bob white quail, the loss of quail habitat and what habitat and management would have to look like if quail populations are to be brought back to higher numbers.
Diagnosing Air Pollution
This is a short slide show that looks at the effects of air pollution on vegetation.
Diagnosing Tree Problems
This is a 30 minute slide show presentation given by Dr. Kim Coder on how to diagnose and treat tree problems.
Discover Arabia Mountain
This is a 20 minute video geared towards kids that explores the geological and ecological significance of Arabia Mountain in the state of Georgia.
Oregon's Generous Forests: Managing for Wildlife
This is a fifteen minute video on managing Oregon's various forests for wildlife.
Ties to the Land
This is a short promotional video about Oregon State's "Ties to the Land" program, a program designed to help families with complicated, emotional, communication, and legal issues associated with intergenerational land transfer.
Hard Hats
"Hard Hats" is a short 20-minute video highlighting the importance of using hard hats while performing timber harvesting or logging operations.
Growing and Marketing Shiitake Mushrooms on Natural Logs
This 15 minute video explores the economic and other benefits of growing Shitake mushrooms on hardwood logs in Kentucky and surrounding Appalachian states.
When Nature is at Your Doorstep: Exploring Wildland-Urban Interface Issues
Many people are choosing to live close to nature. The wildland-urban interface offers peace and quiet, scenic views, and privacy.
Managing Your Woodlot: The Complete Nine Part Series
A series of video tutorials for landowners, teachers and others interested in environmentally responsible woodlot management.
Limbing Techniques for the Professional Cutter
This is a short 10 minute video produced by Stihl on the Soren Erickson approach to limbing a tree.
Living with the Southern Pine Beetle
This is a short video that explores the life cycle and management of Southern Pine Beetle.
Logger Activist Video
This is a 45 minute video produced by the American Pulpwood Association showing loggers how they can be activists for their profession and the responsible use of forest resources.
Logger Safety Program
This is a short promo video produced by Georgia Pacific for the Logger Safety Awareness Program developed out of Mississippi Cooperative Extension. Areas emphasized are Awareness, Training, and Professionalism.
Loggers Safety Training Project B-Roll
This is a 10 minute amateur video of a logger safety training sponsored by Georgia Pacific.
Longleaf Pine-Artificial Regeneration
This video is a 45 minute video produced by the Longleaf Alliance on the importance of Longleaf as a tree species to the Southern United States. It explores the history of Longleaf and current regeneration and management techniques.
Loss Control For Professional Loggers Take-Home Video
This is a half-hour video produced by the American Pulpwood Association on the importance of logger safety.
Wayne Clatterbuck: Direct-seeding Acorns for Reforestation of Bottomland Oaks
Master Tree Farmer 2004- Session 4: Hardwood Management (Part 1)
Ben Jackson: Marketing Forest Products
Master Tree Farmer 2004- Session 5: Marketing and Harvesting (Part 1)
Managing Moisture - Module 3 - Plan It Well, Build it Right, Keep It Forever
This is the 3rd installment in the "Managing Moisture" series. It looks specifically at how to build a moisture free home--1) choosing an area that drains well, 2) detailed drawings and specifications, and 3) homeowner responsibility in home maintenance and lawn care.
Private Property Rights & Endangered Species - Kim Coder
This is a 30 minute talk given by Dr. Kim Coder of the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forest and Natural Resources on how private property rights are effected by the Endangered Species Act.
William Hubbard: Forestry as an Investment
Master Tree Farmer 2004- Session 2: Forestry as an Investment
Tree Crops
This is a 40 minute video presentation on the benefits of planting tree crops on marginal farmland. Marginal farmland can be an abandoned hay field, an overgrown pasture, or an eroded hillside for example. Common crop trees discussed in this video are pawlonia, Christmas trees, pine, and black walnut.
Trees are Treasure-Sustaining the Community Forest
This is a 20 minute video on the importance of trees in the urban landscape. It features Ed Macie from the USDA Forest Service.
Vertibrate Pests of Trees - ID of Wildlife Damage to Woody Vegetation
This is a 10 minute presentation given by Dr. Jeff Jackson of the University of Georgia on identifying vertebrate pests that attack woody material.
International Paper Company-The Story of Paper
This is a short children's video produced by International Paper on how paper is made. It takes the viewer from the harvesting of the raw material (a tree), to the digesting of wood chips into pulp, to bleaching, and finally to making a finished product.
I want to log "selectively"-A Practical Guide to Partial Timber Harvesting
This is a 40 minute video produced by Idaho Cooperative Extension. The video outlines concepts that will help forest landowners, logging operators, and thinning contractors to understand basic tree characteristics to favor and disfavor during a partial harvest.
Scientific Forestry for Informed Choices
This is a short video produced by the US Forest Service highlighting the USFS's efforts to to showcase the science behind forestry. More specifically, it looks at Bent Creek Demonstration Forest and the silvicultural projects that are going on there.
Selected Presentation on Wood Technology
This is a 45 minute collection of selected presentations on wood technology. R. Bruce Hoadley, author of the "Understanding Wood" is a featured speaker exploring basic wood characteristics. There are several other speakers that get into the basics of wood technology.
Southern Landowners Outreach Conference-Tape 2
This is an hour and a half video of landowners talking about their various experiences at the Southern Landowners Outreach Conference.
Stewards of Family Farms, Ranches, and Forests
This is 10 minute video describing the Stewards of Family Farms, Ranches, and Forests Initiative. It was put in place to help protect forest, ranch, and farm landowners from overly stringent legislation and property rights infringement.
The Hot Logging Team Feller Buncher and Grapple
This is short promotional video produced by Timberjack that highlights how well their line of feller bunchers works with their line of grapple skidders when hot logging.
Thinning Pays
This is a short video about cost share programs that support thinning in pine plantations.
Timber Harvesting Expo 1996 - Part 2
This is an hour long video of timber harvesting demonstrations taken at the 1996 Georgia Timber Harvesting Expo.
Tree Planting in the Southern United States
This is a 15 minute video on how to care for tree seedlings, correct tree seedling planting techniques, and how to protect from injury on the job.
David Moorhead: Opportunities for Fertilizing Pine Plantations
Master Tree Farmer 2004- Session 3: Pine Management (Part 2)
Storm of the Century - Hurricane Hugo Special
This is a 55 minute video on the landscape level damage caused by Hurricane Hugo a hurricane that ripped up the Atlantic Coast in September of 1989.
Street Trees-Site Selection, Planting and Maintenance in the Urban Landscape
This is a 50 minute video training program on planting trees in cities for those interested in preserving or reclaiming cities for current and future use. This video in particular looks at site selection, tree planting, and tree maintenance in urban landscapes.
Managing Moisture - Module 5 - There's No Such Thing As Dry Rot
This 20 minute video is the 5th in the managing moisture series. It looks specifically at fungi, what it takes for fungi to live, how fungi attack wood structures, and what can be done to keep the threat of fungi at bay.
Conservation Reserve Program-Growing Wildlife Benefits
This a short University of Georgia Extension video highlighting the wildlife benefits associated with crops (namely trees) planted through the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). The Conservation Reserve Program provides cost share to protect highly erodible areas and water quality.
Creosote Application
This is a short training video containing information required by the EPA for any persons involved in pole framing, piling applications, or railroad tie repair.
It All Begins at the Cut
This is a short promotional video produced by Timberjack on their line of Feller Bunchers.
It's Wonderful Being a Tree
This is a short children's video produced by International Paper. It describes, using relatively easy terms and simple concepts, how trees in a hardwood forest are managed for pole and saw timber.
Safety Training for on the Ground Herbicides
This is a 20 minute safety training video produced by the USFS on herbicides and herbicide use. The 5 areas explored are pesticide labeling and registration, mixing and applying herbicides, transporting herbicides, storing herbicides, and cleaning up herbicide spills.
Street Trees - Site Selection, Planting and Maintenance in the Urban Landscape
This is video produced by Alabama Cooperative Extension on how to choose the right street tree, how to plant street trees well, and how to prune street trees.
The First 50 Years
This is a 10 minute promotional video produced by Timberjack. It takes you through their product line starting in 1947 up to 1997.
The Forest Archetype-Structure of Public Perception
This is a 45 minute presentation on understanding public perception and how the public forms its perception of the forest and forest industry.
The Forest Health Crisis-A Cut-to-Length Prescription
This is a 20 minute video that looks at the cut-to-length system ( a harvester/forwarder combo) as a means of removing hazardous fuels from National Forests as well as private forest land.
The Professional Harvesting Worker
This is a 20 minute video produced by the American Pulpwood Association on professional forest workers. It asks a series of questions to a number of different forestry workers about why they got into the business, what they love about the business and how much they value professionalism.
The Sustainable Forest Initiative and It's Impact on Loggers
This is a 60 minute video conference produced by Alabama Cooperative Extension on the impacts of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative on loggers. Dr. Richard Brinker, an Extension Specialist with Auburn University hosts a panel discussion.
James M. Guldin: Management of Southern Pine Stands Using Natural Regeneration
Master Tree Farmer 2004- Session 3: Pine Management (Part 3)
Firewood Cutting Techniques for the Casual User
This is a short video produced by Stihl on firewood cutting techniques for the casual user. It features Soren Erikson.
How to Do Borate Dip Diffusion
This is a USDA Forest Service produced video on how to do Borate Dip Diffusion Treatments to wood to protect it long-term from insects and decay fungi.
Poultry Litter Application on a Pine Plantation
This is a short 20 minute video produced by Oklahoma Cooperative Extension about the benefits of applying poultry litter to pine plantations and a how to.
Ties to the Land-2
This is a video from Oregon State's "Ties to the Land" program, a program designed to help families with complicated, emotional, communication, and legal issues associated with intergenerational land transfer.
Firewise Landscaping - Part 3
This is the 3rd video in a series on firewise landscaping. This 10 minute video looks at maintenance of landscaping to keep it firewise.